Take 1983’s Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, a madhouse of talent. So, Kishoreda showed up on the sets with half head and half moustache shaved off and half intact! Moral of the story: he is fun to see on screen, not so fun to work with. One popular and peculiar story goes that a producer had paid him only half his due.
But Half Ticket’s loveable delinquent was, by most accounts, a rather difficult and eccentric person who kicked up a fuss when his payment failed to arrive. Ask anyone and they will vouch for Kishore Kumar’s vaudevillian genius. But in many cases, we do know that it was not all play and party on the sets. Thinking of Half Ticket, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro or Andaz Apna Apna, one often wonders if the cast and crew had as much fun making them as we had watching them. When Hindi cinema is at its inspired high watermark madness, it can be a lot of fun – both for the audience and filmmakers and crew behind the making of the film.
It is high time comedies are accorded the respectability they deserve or at least an acknowledgement that funny is a serious business.Ĭomedy is a communal hug – a “jaadu ki jhappi” as Raju Hirani’s Munnabhai would have it – that Bollywood has churned out in the best of times and bleakest of times.
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